Wait a second, Pennsylvania is instituting state standards demanding that kindergartners learn about entrepreneurship and "developing a personal brand"? www.pa.gov/content/dam/...
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David THE Nose Picker (TM)
may 5, 2025, 11:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Jeremy Wet Pants™️
may 6, 2025, 1:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Glad we're trying to get out of here even more now.
may 6, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
This is so grim.
may 6, 2025, 1:36 pm • 2 0 • view
no 😭 I hate it
may 5, 2025, 8:16 pm • 4 0 • view
What are kindergartners going to sell? In an LLC? And what happens when a big corporation wants to buy out the little tikes’ lemonade stands? Will the kindergartners be required to develop an app for POS?
may 5, 2025, 6:54 pm • 8 0 • view
Grooming much?
may 6, 2025, 1:42 am • 1 0 • view
"Why have all the 1st graders started taking anxiety medication?"
may 6, 2025, 6:46 pm • 4 0 • view
At which grade level does "learn to exploit others" appear?
may 6, 2025, 6:33 pm • 2 0 • view
This is some diabolical shit.
may 6, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m stuck on the first row…which is meaningless. Their work ethic is inherently part of their grade, but a grade is often not indicative of any individual’s work ethic. If the kids do the work, I can evaluate their grasp of my subjects. Getting them to work is the hard part of the job.
may 5, 2025, 8:49 pm • 8 0 • view
But all of this is awful. We have various types of business classes in HS for kids who are interested, but preparing 12 year olds for job interviews? And “marketing” themselves? 🤦♂️
may 5, 2025, 8:53 pm • 13 0 • view
Kindergarteners will “Explore career choices and identify the knowledge and skills associated with different types of careers.” Hopefully that’s a fancy way of describing a visit to the fire station.
may 6, 2025, 12:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Someone with a surface-level knowledge of Bloom’s taxonomy and no desire to learn more put this together
may 6, 2025, 12:57 am • 3 0 • view
seems like an AI created rubric. towards the bottom it calls for k-2 students to identify their skills and interests.
may 6, 2025, 1:43 am • 9 0 • view
AI or someone whose never spent any actual time with a child. I’d love to know what my ECE professors thought of this nonsense.
may 6, 2025, 12:35 pm • 3 0 • view
Capitalism is a cult.
may 6, 2025, 11:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Planning for their career is the last thing a 6-year-old needs to worry about What a shockingly out-of-touch policy
may 6, 2025, 1:35 pm • 2 0 • view
evil evil evil
may 6, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
wow.I was playing with toy trucks and blowing bubbles in my milk. A personal brand? Do they think we're cows?
may 5, 2025, 11:21 pm • 18 0 • view
It's like business school for children, weird
may 6, 2025, 4:17 am • 1 0 • view
The content creator-ification of our lives continues apace.
may 5, 2025, 8:12 pm • 14 0 • view
As a teacher, this shit sickens me. Kindergartners need to learn number sense and letters, not entrepreneurship, ffs!
may 6, 2025, 5:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Hillsdale's rationale for classical ed rests on explicit rejection of "corporate interests" in education and I really think it's possible to make much more inclusive, POPULAR arguments for teaching literature in schools
may 5, 2025, 5:48 pm • 66 0 • view
I keep saying this: book bans are part of a much broader, maybe even uglier, issue
may 5, 2025, 5:51 pm • 97 6 • view
It’s important to say that students are more than just future workers, and that reading and writing about literature are for more than just developing “job skills”
may 5, 2025, 8:15 pm • 234 55 • view
Absolutely
may 6, 2025, 1:49 am • 3 0 • view
I won’t go off on the history of American public education. I won’t go off on the history of American public education. I won’t go off on the history of American public education.
may 6, 2025, 1:07 pm • 5 0 • view
Can you share the source for this? I'm working on something related!
may 7, 2025, 3:39 pm • 2 0 • view
at school now, will get it to you later!!
may 7, 2025, 4:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks so much. I’d love to interview you for the piece I’m working on!
may 7, 2025, 4:32 pm • 2 0 • view
P 13 for starters, there's another doc too that I'm trying to find-- k12.hillsdale.edu/k12/media/Do...
may 8, 2025, 12:04 am • 1 0 • view
Thanks - very helpful!
may 8, 2025, 12:08 am • 1 0 • view
No problem, will keep digging (have read a lot about it recently, so many PDFs and open tabs), and happy to talk sometime if that'd be helpful too
may 8, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
I’d love to chat. Will follow up by email!
may 8, 2025, 12:11 am • 1 0 • view
Whatever the problem is, Hillsdale is not the solution.
may 6, 2025, 1:25 pm • 4 0 • view
What... the... fuck....
may 6, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
The rights of workers section for that grade level is left "intentionally blank" for Pete's sake!
may 6, 2025, 1:30 pm • 9 0 • view
Absolute insanity. Have any of these people spent 20 mins in a room with 25+ 5 & 6 yr olds?
may 6, 2025, 1:48 am • 7 0 • view
I can tell you, no, they have not.
may 6, 2025, 12:29 pm • 3 0 • view
lol right. Kind of rhetorical question.
may 6, 2025, 2:05 pm • 1 0 • view
time to self-deport
may 5, 2025, 7:12 pm • 5 0 • view
Fucking christ
may 6, 2025, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
about time, all the 5 year olds i know are terrible brand ambassadors
may 6, 2025, 1:46 pm • 4 0 • view
oh god
may 5, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
We should be “banning the concept of ‘personal brands,’” instead! 🤷♂️
may 5, 2025, 11:22 pm • 10 0 • view
That’s wrong.
may 6, 2025, 1:51 am • 0 0 • view
How so?
may 6, 2025, 2:13 am • 1 0 • view
A reply tailored to “bluesky” would have simply noted that cattle are branded; and in so much as they are able to escape capture cattle are entrepreneurial. 😊
may 6, 2025, 12:48 pm • 0 0 • view
A human being shouldn’t aspire to being/having a “personal brand” (not as the term is understood in ordinary language). As for the entrepreneurial aspect, so long as it is treated as a pursuit among many other equally worthy life paths then fine. 1/2
may 6, 2025, 12:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Human beings, to me, are living beings with intellectual/emotional/spiritual needs/attributes that sb in an environment that nurture and allow those needs to freely develop. Human life is an artistic existence and sb viewed as such.
may 6, 2025, 12:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Marketing yourself as a job candidate begins in grade 6? They are getting serious about the child labour I guess.
may 6, 2025, 12:44 pm • 13 0 • view
I am sorry, but WTF?
may 6, 2025, 1:59 am • 1 0 • view
This is fully too easy to satirize. Although the "developing a personal brand" language is icky, it does feel somewhat grade-appropriate.
may 6, 2025, 7:18 pm • 2 0 • view
*I* don’t want to learn that. It’s evident that these jackals have not tried to explain economics to children before, because this is how you make a generation of completely nihilistic anticapitalists.
may 6, 2025, 5:28 pm • 1 0 • view
This is all part of another long term game plan by the right to impose their amoral will on Americans. Will we be able to stop it this time?
may 6, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
but not workers' rights.
may 6, 2025, 1:33 am • 6 0 • view
This is the "personal brand" these "standards" are looking for. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
may 6, 2025, 9:12 am • 12 0 • view
🤦🏼♀️ I have a PhD in consumer psychology, and I HATE the whole concept of your personal brand. Way too self conscious and annoying.
may 6, 2025, 1:55 am • 15 0 • view
And for most, absolutely pointless
may 6, 2025, 2:07 am • 8 0 • view
The worst in when HR and employers in general started asking about it in job interviews. Unless you’re in entertainment or are trying to earn a living as an influencer, it’s totally irrelevant.
may 6, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Talk about indoctrination.
may 6, 2025, 9:32 am • 1 0 • view
I cracked up at "Rights of workers: (Intentionally blank)"
may 6, 2025, 5:50 am • 9 0 • view
This is so goddamn stupid.
may 5, 2025, 7:39 pm • 6 0 • view
That is genuinely one of the most impoverished approaches to historical thinking I have ever read.
may 5, 2025, 5:55 pm • 27 0 • view